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I believe there's a killer in all of us. I know there's one inside me. When you know the killer in you and you know also that you ...do not want to kill, you have to set yourself upon a course of learning. Not to kill that killer then, but to control it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in t...he race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. T...here's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The revolution as we call it is not necessarily an uprising in the streets or the old business of seizing power. Though the Left h...as always imagined it was. The revolution is change. Not merely rearrangement, but a deep emotional type of transformation that must also take place inside us. It's a better way to live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Stupid misery of fame and money. Always we were safe from it, mistaking our obscurity for a curse when it was a treasure. Free to ...make what we liked, to be ourselves, even do nothing at all. No one watching. We could be real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by med...ia's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »